Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-08

eral, G. 4. Hubbard, Lake City; e. g. pre-
/ late, Philo B. 2Hubbell, aYinona: %. g. sen
Tor warden. Charles L. Spalding, Brainerd;;
| e. j. junior warden. D. b. Smith, Austin;
p. G. treasurer, John g NcFarland =.
! g. recorder. 4. T. c. Piers on, st. Paul; ~.
/ G. standard bearer, G.. Y. Ferguson, Koch
+ ester; E..G sword bearer. n. D. Powell,
Redwood Falls; E. G. warden, G. s. Allen,
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| At the lat reunion Of the First Regiment
| OF veterans at Saltwater, on the walls was
| a long series OF placartls, as induces to the
various engagements OF the old First ylE;
| Bull Run, Julx y 1861; second Bull Eun,
Aug. 80, >lsti; Yorktown; May z. lso2;
West p int, lay S, 1862; Edwards Ferry,
Oct. 22, 1861; Peach Orchard, june 20,
! 1862; Savage Staeion, June 20, 1862; talr
! Oaks. June l., 1862; Nelson's Farm, June
! 80, 1862; Malvern Hill, July l., 1852;
| Glendale, June 80. 1862; Vienna. Sept. q,
1862: first and second Fredericksburg,
! Dec. Is lS62,a May 8, 1868; Antietam,
| Gettysburg, July 2 and 8. 1868; Briston's
Station, Oct. 3, 1868. Officers for the en-
suing year were chosen as follows: Presi-
dent, Judge Lochran; vice president, E. r
| Perkins; treasurer, James Cannon; secre-
tary G. F. Hausdorf. Their next reunion
will be held at the George A. Brackett
countrt residence at Lake Miunetonka.
Mr.. Treherne the British vice consul at
! St. Paul, has appointed Mr.. W. SoInervllle
| Royle a-ting vice consul during his ao'
| sence.
| Korgaard, cashier OF the State Bank OF
| Minneapolis, has been officially recognl1-
ed by Secretary Bayard as the Portuguese
| consul at that city.
at Winona on the 24th an early morn
! ing blaze completely destroyed the Laird
| Norton mill, the largest saw mill on the
! Mississippi a conf1agratiOn which involves
a direct loss OF 500, 900 and the throwing
OF 800 men out unemployment. The Laird
Norton company was organized in the
| fifties, and the saw mill was built in 1883.
! The company was incorporated in 1888
with capital OF 81, 900, 600. M. G. Nor
ton is president. J. l.. Norton, vice presi-
dent and VII. Laird, secretary and treas
urer. They employ about 400 men, and
manufacture a yearly average OF 80, oO0,-
| 900 feet OF lumber. 8, coo, 900 lath and 2l,-
| 000,0 900 sbinsle. They carry about 49,
| 600, 900 feet OF lumber. They have forty
yards in the Northwest immense pine lands,
| and are interested in the Winona lumber
mill, the North Wisconsin mill at Hay
ward Wis, and the Chippewa Lumber and
! Boom Company.
| In the band contest at Rochester, the
| following prizes were awarded: First class,
| Red Wing, first, without co1npe tition. Sec
| ond.class, Spring Valley, first; Cannon
| Falls second; Marion, third. The total
cash prizes were 1928.
| Pensions have been issued to Minneso-
tisns as follows: Originals: Jacob Casa
man, Mazeppa; Daniel w. HAND, st. Paul;
Arson Hellger, Arlington; Charles c. Dixie,
| White Bear Lake; John B. Lattonvene,
| St. Paul; Edmund Rice, St. Paul; William
| Shinnick, Clontarf Enneas S. Peat, Wheat.
! land. Increase: Caleb J. May, Cokato.
| Reissues: Francis w. Seeley, Lake City;
William Payne, Browntown. Reissue and
increase: Quincy c. Warren, Grove Lake.
Charles H. Morton OF Ashland, Wis, has
| fled complaint in the district court
against O. S. Hagern1an OF St. Paul to Ell"
| force the iul6lluent OF a contract for the
| sale OF real estate the amount involved
! being 5000. Renaissance OF the Ashland
| boom.
Tay|ors Falls witnesses it's annual log
! jam, which is, however, less picturesque
! than that OF 1856.
Mvron Brown, general agent OF the New
| York Life Insurance company, residing at
| st. Paul, stepped into the wash room at
! the Nicolet house, at Minneapolis. He
appeared to be III perfect health at the
time, but after washing his hand he turned
partially around and then fell heavily to
| the floor. He was picked up and laid on
a table, but when a physician arrived
few moments la ter life WAS extinct the
sudden death being attributed to heart
disease or apopexy.
| Minnesota again comes to the front in
| the pers on OF ]. NJ. Prendergast OF Mime
! apolis. who graduated at Georgetown D.
| {. college. President Cleveland and a
! large crowd OF government officials were
! present. Mr.. Prendergast took the follow.
! ing: A medal for poetry, a premium for
! English literature and composition; the
second prize medal in mathematics, the
| first medal in general chemistry, the
Philodemic prize medal for an grafton on
| ''Old and New Locksley Hall" and
| special prize for passing an examination
| on the entire '.IliA3."
| At Minneapolis, R. L. StiIlman turned
over to c. H. Chadburn, the Rochester
| man block, the building on Fourth between
Nicolet and Hennepin, now occupied by
; the postoffic This is probably as good
business property as there is In the city.
The consideration was $4,000. The
building is good one, five-story front, but
it cannot possibly be worth over $780,.
900. Allowing that for the building. and
| foot for his land.
| Not to exceed !, 900 acres O: crops have
been damaged by grasshoppers around Per
| ham.
| In the district court at St. Peter in the
| case OF Twist IS. Winona & St. Peter rail
! road, for damages to Twist s boy who was
| hurt by Il turn bic. the jury gave a. ver-
dict for plaintiff OF 5000.
| w. H. Dixon, assis tant general passenger
! agent OF the Milwaukee, has issued a circu.
| lar stating that the Hotel St. Louis at
Minnetonka will be opened July z under
| the management OF E. z. Emerson, OF the
i 49,
waukee & St. Paul would have a line TO the
| hotel.
test suit is about to be brought at
| Rochester, against A. W. Pingree. the mer-
| chant of the smoked sturgeon which were
eaten in this vicinity with such unpleasant
results. The victims numbered over one
| hundred, and few are still i'll with cramps
| and blood poisoning.
Rev. Mr.. Hayward, preached his farewell
sermon in the Congregational church at
| Waterville. Poor health was the reason
| OF his resignation.
John, Wright. living in Cottage Grove,
Washington county, was gored by a bull
and seriously, il not fatally, injured.
Congressman Edmund Rice Of St. Paul,
has been awarded q pension Under the act
passed last winter for the benefit OF the
survivors OF the Mexican war. "Uncle
Ned" as he is affectionately known, was in
| the war and "foated it" from Vera Cruez
to the city OF Mexico with the army OF Gen.
| Scott. .G-.' elN&/&
The railroad commissioners are sending
out blanks for the annual reports OF the
| railroads in the state. They are to be fill.
ed out and returned in September and will
be published i'll January. 2sg.5i{s=
Rev. James McGolrick, Of the Immacu.
late Conception church, Minneapolis re-
ceiyed telegram from Ireland, announc-.
ing the death OF his father. Z; ~
Sumner Ladd has been appointed by
Gov. McGill to take testimony ia regard
Ia the charg made aoaiIst Den,1fu !.